I just spend too much money building a very nice lownoise system with a single SATA hdd.

I am totally newbie regarding KnoppMyth and Linux but a quick study.

When I boot from the KnoppMyth it can not see my harddrive - but when I try installing Fedora FC1 or FC2 I have no problems installing on the SATA.

Is it because the KnoppMyth kernel is too low/old?

Or is there a solution to my problem?

The 865-PE based mainboard has 4 ide channels. 1st and 2nd are PATA 3rd and 4th are SATA. So I can not set the SATA disk as Primary Master. It can only be Third/Fourth Master/Slave.

I hope you can help me - I would really like KnoppMyth instead of building a Linux+MythTv myself.

Thanks in advance.

~ Tim

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Here is my new rig:



Case: Coolermaster ATC-620C-SX1 mATX med Seasonic 300W
Mainboard: Soltek SL-86PIE-L - Micro-ATX
CPU: Intel Pentium4 2.8 GHz Prescot 9nm Socket 478 BOXED
CPU-cooler: Thermalright SP-94
CPU-cooler-fan: Papst 8412 NGL, 80x80mm Fan (12dB/19CFM)
RAM: OCZ Enhanced Latency PC-3500
Video: Gainward GeForce4 PowerPack! Pro/600-8X (fanless)
Tuner: WinTV PVR-350
DVD: Lite-On 16X DVD / 48X CDROM IDE
Harddrive: Hitachi DeskStar 7K250 - Hard drive - 250 GB - SATA-150

Currently KnoppMyth does offer support for SATA. I did try to incorporate them in R4V4 but the patch didn't apply cleanly or when it did, I'd get unresolved symbol so I removed it. I'm not a kernel developer. Less I'm mistaken, the drive will work as an ATA(if you have a regular ATA controller onboard).

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

I think I know why I can't install KnoppMyth R4V4

As the mainboard has both PATA and SATA fixed like this:

Primary master: PATA
Primary slave: PATA
Secondary master: PATA
Secondary slave: PATA
Third Master: SATA
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.
.

I end up having my SATA harddisk set as /dev/hde1 instead of /dev/hda1



How can I tell the installation to use /dev/hde1 ???

I read about someone who changed the /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX file - but how??? Mayb I could change it and burn a new bootcd with the altered /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX file?

Or could a new feature be introduced in R4V5? I would have liked an install option like the "tv" for tv-out for selecting harddrive device. Like entering "/dev/hde1" for hde1 or "/dev/sda1" for sda1.

Hope someone can help me, I still cant install KnoppMyth and its frustrating to have my brand new hardware just sitting there doing nothing.

Thaks for all the help I can get - in advance.

you can try the manual install which will allow you to use a different harddrive than hda, however if your sata chipset requires a driver which is not in the kernel it will not work, and at this point I don't think many are supported in the kernel knoppmyth ships with as reported earlier by cesman.

My setup has only SATA harddrives, and I ran into a similar problem which I posted in this thread: http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1508. That thread shows how I got it to autoinstall, but then I needed to do a fix to lilo.conf so the system would boot correctly. I was working on another issue so held off on a followup post. I'll post my procedure in the "level 2" topic now.

EDIT: now posted, http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=8622

I couldn't get lilo happy with my sata system, so I run GRUB instead... you need to copy the grub files from /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc to /boot/grub

you need to create a /boot/grub/grub.conf and link it to /boot/grub/menu.lst.

(copy of my grub.conf)



Now to setup your master boot sector:



That should leave you with a functional grub install... if you want to try grub.

Tried again and failed again.

Gave it a shot with "ide=reverse" and "expert" but still no luck - so I switched hdd with my normal PC and everything ran smoothly on the old PATA 120GB disk.

I hope for a future SATA support for my ICH5 SATA.

Thanx anyway for all the helpful tips.

Excellent Scottf, but could you clean this up, I'm a total linux newbie, only used some AIX and Solaris J2EE servers before... So I have a hard time seeing what's commands, comments and config files. Pls help